I am reading this aloud to M, due to our having driven 2000km in the past eight days without a radio in the car. I love it.

This is the first book in ‘diary style’ that I’ve actually enjoyed. Have read it before – it’s very funny. Have also recommend the sequeal ‘Edge of Reason’ which I found even funnier.

I almost inhaled my own face when my friend lent me the latest Thursday Next novel. I have to agree with the person who has the ‘Harry Potter reaction’ to a new Jasper Fforde book – I do too! This one is EXCELLENT. I’ve almost finished it.

I am enjoying this a lot – I am often curious about where certain words come from, and why particular expressions make no literal sense. Not to mention the pangs of horror that I get when I imagine having to learn English – so much of if makes so little logical sense!

I have NEVER not been sucked in by a Lee Child ‘Jack Reacher’ book. I know that once I’m about fifty or so pages in, I will have difficulty putting it down.

I found this to be fairly fascinating, although I don’t think we heard enough of the MUSIC of the Brian Jonestown Massacre. It’s all very well to keep hearing that this Anton guy is a ‘genius’ but there was very little of their music showcased to indicate this – and personality-wise he just comes across as a very annoying, self deluded and self defeating pain in the arse. It was all quite interesting to watch – in a voyeuristic sort of way.

I really liked this movie. If you’ve only seen Annette Bening do her ‘American Beauty’ thing, then see this movie, because it shows her amazing versatility. It’s not a hard hitting movie, but it is very charming.

I got given this album a week or two ago and have just started listening to it. Initially I thought it was way too ‘clean’ sounding – kind of supremely unobjectionable – but after playing it repeatedly, I have been sucked in. There are some very beautiful tracks that I think stand out over the rest:
Telescope Eyes, Golly Sandra, Brightly Wound, and Trolley Wood have all stayed in my head for days…

This book is brilliant. Rebus is getting more tortured and the streets of Edinburgh are grim. This was a great read – Ian Rankin deserves accolades (and his music taste isn’t bad either).

A great Grafton. hadn’t read one for a while, but got sucked in via an audio book that I listened to when I was having my eyes lasered. Quarry is a great read and also pencils in a bit more of Kinsey’s past, which is always interesting.